Good Morning Coffee fiends!! Help me pick a new favorite coffee!

[INTELBYTES]

Two of my favorites are Sumatra and Kenya AA. They have such a deep rich flavor. I lean more towards the heavier bodied coffees which these two have. When time permits there is nothing like grinding your own beans and having that first cup off a fresh pot. My wife has me hooked me up with Gevalia coffees as well. They make a few good varieties.

What are some of your favorite java's?
While your at it, do you prefer straight coffee, expresso, or cappuccino?

:donut:

[Waistdeep]

1. Peet's

Try their Sulawesi-Kalosi
http://www.peets.com/shop/coffee_detail.asp?id=41&cid=1004

That, and their Mocha-Java, are my favorites. I usually brew them straight, but they both make great espressos.

[INTELBYTES]

2. I'll have to try that one. Thanks!

:hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. My favorite Peet's blend is

Garuda. I practically had a pipeline running from the Portland store to my apartment.

Unfortunately, there is no Peet's in Minneapolis, but there's an independent coffee roaster around the block from me, and he gets in all sorts of interesting blends.

The other day, he got some coffee from the island of St. Helena (where Napoleon was exiled in the middle of the South Atlantic), which sells for $75.00 a pound. Since he wasn't going to sell a lot of pound bags at that price, he brewed individual cups for $2.25. I took the bait, and indeed, the stuff was excellent, with the kind of subtle flavoring that makes you taste different highlights with each mouthful.

[Liberal Christian]

13. Lydia .... Peet's comes in the mail!!

I order Peet's all the time online. I know you pay for postage, but the coffee is so superior to anything else I've found that it's worth it.

I find that when I have wonderful coffee, I do fine with one or two cups a day. I'm not slurping it down because it's so good that the taste and experience linger a while.

This is a good thing because then the Peet's lasts longer and I don't have to fork over the cash for shipping so often :)

[Ilsa]

3. I used to buy Gevalia, but gave it up over the

expense and hassle of making sure I didn't have too much in stock, etc. My favorite Gevalia was Peaberry, and there were several others I really liked as well.

Right now, we're drinking Fair Trade Certified Breakfast Blend from the Organic Co. Has a slight bitter kick to it, but still tasty.

Enjoy your morning coffee. I think mine helps me shed a mild fluid buildup overnight.

[Whitacre D_WI]

4. Look here:

http://www.ravensbrew.com/index.html

Lots of shade grown, fair trade coffees, that are REAL coffee.

And yes, I like real coffee. Just a cuppa Joe, 'cept with good beans. I'm also a big fan of the African coffees; I also dig Middle Eastern coffees and Kona.

[Mistress Quickly]

5. If you like those

try Jamiacan Blue Mountain.

[hlthe2b]

18. Jamaican Blue Mountain at $30/pound?

Tell me you don't drink this routinely...

Actually, I have a "tragic story" re: Jamaican Blue Mountain. Seems I brought 3 pounds back from Jamaica at a reasonable price (several years ago). I moved a few weeks later and have still no idea what happened to that coffee. Still bugs the heck out of me, years later!


Anyone seen my Jamaican Blue? Please?!

[DuctapeFatwa]

6. Cafe du Monde, Yergacheffee Dark from Ethiopia, Yemeni Mocha Java

Cafe du Monde is my favorite, but I like coffee by the slice. If it is too extreme for you, try Yemeni Mocha Java, it is NOT mocha as in chocolate and coffee, that is just its name. It is rich and mellow.

Ethiopian YD tastes kind of chocolaty but it's not.

Also you might like Vietnamese Robusto.

If you want to see a big fight, ask a group that contains Yemenis and Ethiopians where the FIRST coffee came from.

Then hide in a secure location and watch hilarity ensue.

[Liberal Christian]

7. Second the motion on Peets

I like their blends, too --

Major Dickason's
Garuda
Sierra Dorada
Top Blend

Yum!!! They have a very cool javascript "coffee finder" on their site where they group coffees by body and acidity and help you find the ones that you would probably like best.

www.peets.com

[Intelsucks]

8. I think it always tastes better when YOU make it.

(inside joke) We're co-workers.:D

[donco6]

9. I like Hawaiian Kona

But it's much milder than the ones you like.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

10. Green Mountain Coffee

Green Mountain Coffee
"Fair Trade Organic Rain Forest blend- In support of tropical forests, this unique shade-grown coffee is deep, dark and lush with a toasty sweetness. "

It's damn good.

[AlecBGreen]

14. green mountain has my vote too!

superb! buy anything shade grown. it helps save valuable habitat and it tastes better too. (coffee evoloved in the shade. dont you think we should keep it there?)

[Bertha Venation]

11. oh, man . . . .

I switched to tea to cut down on fat. Follow: I take cream in my coffee, and like it best with half & half -- I'd go out of my way, overspend, whatever, just to have half & half. I don't even get latte anymore, and I adore latte. (Nonfat latte = :puke:)

Now this talk of coffee . . . oohhhhhh....

[Whitacre D_WI]

15. Of course, everybody loves Kopi Luwak!

http://www.dreamship.com/kopi_luwak.htm

[arwalden]

16. Kona. Kona. Kona.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Kona was the first "gourmet" coffee I ever drank,

and it was a revelation.

I was in a summer session at the U. of Hawaii-Manoa, and with all the Mainland students who came every year, they offered low-budget tours to the other islands--we'd get driven around in a schoolbus and stay in places like boarding school dorms.

I went to the Big Island, and the one luxury feature of this tour was the brunch buffet at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, which cost $200 a night then (in 1977). I don't remember much about the food, but I still remember my first taste of Kona coffee.

I had always used coffee as "student fuel," but I had never really enjoyed the taste. All of us at my table marveled about how good the coffee was.

From Hawaii I went on to Japan, which was into gourmet coffee long before the U.S. was. There used to be a lot of places where you could get an individually brewed cup of any conceivable variety of coffee, select the elegant china cup you wanted it served in, and then sit down at a distinctively carved wooden table and listen to classical music or jazz. (Sadly, these places are giving away to Starbucks, Starbucks' imitators, and some local "stand bar" chains like Doutor.)

I came back to the States unable to tolerate any New Haven coffee except what was served in the few Italian-style espresso bars.

[htuttle]

19. "Ya Basta!" from 'Just Coffee"

It's Fair Trade coffee from the Muz Vitz growers collective in Chiapas. Dark like a French Roast, but not burned like espresso.

As a bonus, Just Coffee donates $1 from every bag of Ya Basta! to help the Zapatista movement buy trucks (in addition to paying the growers far more than they would normally make by selling to a large corporation -- there are no middlemen).

If you don't live in Madison and can't get it down at your neighborhood food coop, you can order it here I think: http://www.justcoffee.net/coffee.html .

They also have other brands. Their Sumatra brand is also really good, and is purchased from the P.P.K.G.O. grower's collective in Aceh, Sumatra.

Coffee to change the world!

[Catshrink]

20. ZombyCoffee!

gotta stay loyal to my DU buds!

[JCMach1]

21. Anything from YEMEN

without doubt the best coffee in the world!

[KT2000]

22. Torrefazione Italia

the Palermo blend - strong - full body - smooth - and not acid
They seem to have figured something out about roasting the beans that they are rich in flavor without the bitterness.

For evenings - their decaf is so good you can't even tell that it's decaf
Straight coffee, first thing in the morning is the best

(recently bought out by Starbucks - just hope they don't change anything)